I'm looking for Nerds. I know that most here are watch nerds, but that's not necessarily sufficient. Some of you are probably bankers or english teachers. What I'm looking for is some external evidence of your general nerdiness. I have recently started collected vintage HP calculators. I don't need a calculator anymore, but they are so cool. They were a revolution. I did not have any of these growing up. But now I have much more money and Ebay. HP 35. The first pocket scientific calculator came out in 1972. HP had previously made a desktop calculator in 1969 that had the same functions, but cost $4500. What enabled the cost savings and shrinking was the very beginning of medium scale integrated circuits. They sold at least 300000 of these. HP 16C. This calculator and it's siblings came out in 1981. My high school calculus teacher had an 11C, that I thought was from the future. One of my good friends got this my junior year for christmas. I was so jealous. So I just bought myself one last month
That's pretty nerdy. I'm a politics nerd. I took my 2 and 4 yr old out to Government House to see the governor-general and PRime minister drive past on their way to calling an election My daughter is in the rainbow jacket, top right. I should also mention it was drizzling and about 15 degrees (celcius)
Were they visibly scarred by the this? Or is the damage deeper? They may blame you in years to come for the psychological trauma Cool thing to do.
@CanberraOmega hope you take them to see Bill sworn in also in a few months... Bit of a Nerd when it comes to Maps and compass stuff when going bush even though I have a GPS with land and marine for the whole of Australia and NZ with me also.
More likely to have been scarred by seeing Abbott that Cosgrove! Let's wait to see the results before we diagnose anybody.
That would be great. We went up to watch the address in reply to the Budget (Americans, does the 'opposition' get a formal response to the State of the Union?) and got photos of them with Chris Bowen, but MrsCanberra won't let me post photos of the kids.
Well, the USA has the donald, we need to maintain an equal standing on the political world stage. <joking, no serious political comment there>
Nice "reverse bachour" calculator. One one was a racehorse 1 two was 1 too 1 1 1 1 race 1 2 1 1 2 [emoji33] Sent from my Vodafone 890N using Tapatalk
I grew up with dads, HP35, HP 16c, my first home computer was a ti 99. I want to uni with a ti80 to study for my biscuit . . . . bsc in eit .... I might have been shaped by numbers and Texas instrument. You must know this link if not enjoy. http://www.datamath.org TTFN Sent from my Vodafone 890N using Tapatalk
My house is full or nerdy stuff, from a first edition, fully original, fully operating MacIntosh (1984), fancy holograms, crazy instrumentation, to a hand-made, meter tall Tesla coil (see picture). My Mancave is such that some people hardly notice the Tesla Coil.
Here's another picture of the Mancave, showing the lovely Lelanie next to Luke and a PID temperature controller.
Still have my HP 15C. Purchased in 1987 after I graduated from engineering school. Still use it a couple times per week. Got a TI from my college years still knocking around somewhere as well.
I'm pretty sure you win, even though this wasn't a competition. How much memory was in that Mac 128K?
I guess I got a bit excited when I saw the thread.... 128k is the amount of RAM. I got it at a hamfest for next to nothing. I replaced the floppy drive and obtained the system disks from an online vendor.